The corpus record — Latin

recurvo

to bend

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

rĕ-curvo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-curvo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to bend or curve backwards, to turn back (not ante-Aug.): equi colla, Ov. H. 4, 79: radicem, Col. 5, 10, 13: palmam, Gell. 3, 6, 2: in caput aquas, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 6: gladios in vulnera, Stat. Th. 3, 583. — In part. perf.: mucrone intus recurvato, Cels. 7, 7, 4: os magis in exteriora, id. 8, 1 fin.: undae (Maeandri), winding, serpentine, Ov. M. 2, 246.

In the wild

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.